Mike Wolters SaddleBrooke Hiking Club members Frank Brier, Roy Carter and Mike Wolters recently climbed to the top of one of the most famous landmarks of the Superstition Mountains. Located east of Phoenix, the majestic Weaver’s Needle is a spire that rises 4,553 feet and dominates the skyline for miles around. The trio made the…
Bob Shea and Bill Brennan Several times each year DIGS, SaddleBrooke’s Photography Club, schedules photo field trips. December’s destination was the Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness area located north on Highway 77 past Mammoth. Eleven members of DIGS participated in the day long adventure that was organized and led by Bob Shea who knows the canyon well…
Karen Schickedanz Enjoying a pre-Christmas hike in Oracle State Park are SaddleBrooke Hiking Club members (from left) Miriam Solomon, Karen Wendlandt, hiking guide Susan Hollis and Donna O’Shea. In the background is the historic Kannally Ranch. Neil Kannally came to the area in 1902 and homesteaded the land that eventually became the park. In 1976…
Karen Schickedanz SaddleBrooke resident Phil McNamee, an experienced hiker and backpacker, will lead hiking club members and guests on a trek through Gros Morne National Park in Canada via a slide show and lecture during the club’s program on Wednesday, November 19. The program will begin at 3:00 p.m. in the HOA 1 Activity Center,…
Ken Wong Ninety members of the SaddleBrooke Hiking Club had an enjoyable time at the annual spring picnic held at the YMCA’s Triangle Y Ranch in Oracle on April 15. Prior to a business meeting, many members hiked the American Flag Trail or took a tour of High Jinks Ranch. The meeting, conducted by club…
Karen Schickedanz The SaddleBrooke Hiking Club is well known for the many hikes it offers throughout the year. But members can participate in other activities as well. For example, 22 members recently completed three half-day GPS workshops. The workshops were organized by club members Roy Carter along with Tim Butler, Ron Franklin, Walt Shields, Maureen…
Mary Croft and Elisabeth Wheeler Sandra Sowell was hiking the trails of the Tucson area well before the formation of the SaddleBrooke Hiking Club in 1999. She hiked every hike led by a former guide in SaddleBrooke in the late ‘90s. Sandra was influential in getting the SaddleBrooke Hiking Club going and was the chairperson…
Elisabeth Wheeler The last program of the SaddleBrooke Hiking Club’s 2013-14 season at 3:00 p.m. Wednesday, May 21 in the HOA 1 Activity Center will feature a SaddleBrooke resident who has specialized in adventure travel photography for more than 35 years. Harry Ford will present three Blu-ray slideshows featuring some of his Arizona adventures: Rafting…
Sandra Sowell This is how he usually introduces himself. And if you have not met him, you should. A kind and gentle man, he is—full of wonder. “I wonder how this works?” “I wonder where that came from?” Once an engineer, always an engineer they say. Jim Strickler and his wife Helen became a part…